Bypassing the Linux net stack with Go

Using XDP and eBPF, we can directly read and write the Ethernet frames from the network card and parse them ourselves, gaining complete control over the data and significantly improving performance, basically bypassing all the Linux network layers.
And all this can be done directly from a normal Go application run by the user... How beautiful is it?

LEVEL: Advanced

Place
Leonardo
Length
45 min
When
October 6th, 2025
16:30

Abstract

Using XDP and eBPF, we can directly read and write the Ethernet frames from the network card and parse them ourselves, gaining complete control over the data and significantly improving performance, basically bypassing all the Linux network layers.
And all this can be done directly from a normal Go application run by the user... How beautiful is it?

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